Paying 50% or whatever of your annual income for healthcare is just like the nursing home seizing all of your assets because you're on your death bed, except you're doing it when you're perfectly healthy. If you have a job and pay insurance, that cost isn't anywhere near 50% or whatever of your income. And if healthcare costs 50% of your annual income, that's ridiculously expensive unless you're having catastrophic health problems like cancer or heart failure every year.
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But taxes are generally transactional. There should be transparency in how your tax dollars are being spent. If you don't really have a say in how those dollars are spent, or whether they're being spent efficiently, taxation is really nothing other than theft. So you can build your public libraries all over the place, but if it takes 50% of your income a year to operate it, I think I'll pass on the library and just support local businesses instead where people will actually work, learn, and create something instead of browse the internet all day.